Amazon sells more bit-books and dead tree books

I think it’s fair to say that Ama­zon is a bell­wether for things to come in the swirl of hol­i­day pur­chases. This year’s announce­ment that the com­pany ful­filled more ebook sales than paper book sales seems like an appro­pri­ately big deal, even if it’s guar­an­teed to give my mother-in-law pal­pi­ta­tions.

Likely the biggest cul­prit at Ama­zon is the Kin­dle, and while we don’t know how many were actu­ally sold this year, Ama­zon says it was the highest-selling prod­uct in the company’s his­tory. It beat the iPod touch — his­tor­i­cally top-seller around the hol­i­days. This is all well and good, but remem­ber that Ama­zon is the only place you can buy the Kin­dle; clearly not the case with the iPod, or any other top sell­ers at Ama­zon.

Still, accord­ing to this, if you’re not read­ing an ebook now, you will be soon. Pre­pare for the robot upris­ing, people.